idāraši-
‘(an official)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 737
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
idāraši-
‘(an official)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a festival text with Palaic incantations. The fragment on which it is attested had been previously classified as a Hattic fragment until D. Sasseville joined it to the Palaic tablet of KUB 35.163.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | i-da-a-ra-ši-š˚ | KBo 37.150 + KUB 35.163 ii 2’/4 | (CTH 753, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
The noun idārašiš is coordinated with the subjects Tabarna and Tawannanna and, thus, represents some kind of official involved in the cultic activities of the festival. Morphologically speaking, is represents a substantivization in -i- of a genitival adjective *idāraša- ‘belonging to the idār’. The word *idār- can be interpreted as an abstract noun in *-(ā)dar/-nnaš derived from the verb ī- ‘to go’. Thus, the function of this official could be related to coming and going; cf. Hitt. LÚittaranni- c. ‘runner, courier’ (HW (2nd ed.) I:303). Further information on the function of this Palaic official can only be gained through the elucidation of the context.
[D.S.]
For the lemma head seePal. ī- ‘to go’.